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1 Scope of the Report 1.1 Market Introduction 1.2 Research Objectives 1.3 Years Considered 1.4 Market Research Methodology 1.5 Economic Indicators 1.6 Currency Considered

2 Executive Summary 2.1 World Market Overview 2.1.1 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size 2014-2024 2.1.2 Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size CAGR by Region 2.2 Online Program Management in Higher Education Segment by Type 2.2.1 Credentials Verification 2.2.2 Expanding MOOCs 2.2.3 Digital Rights Protection 2.2.4 Open Source Universities 2.2.5 School Assets Tracking Management 2.2.6 Other 2.3 Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size by Type 2.3.1 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Market Share by Type (2014-2019) 2.3.2 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Growth Rate by Type (2014-2019) 2.4 Online Program Management in Higher Education Segment by Application 2.4.1 University 2.4.2 Perosonnel Recruitments 2.4.3 Digital Rights Management 2.4.4 Other 2.5 Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size by Application 2.5.1 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Market Share by Application (2014-2019) 2.5.2 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Growth Rate by Application (2014-2019)

3 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education by Players 3.1 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Market Share by Players 3.1.1 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size by Players (2017-2019) 3.1.2 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Market Share by Players (2017-2019) 3.2 Global Online Program Management in Higher Education Key Players Head office and Products Offered 3.3 Market Concentration Rate Analysis 3.3.1 Competition Landscape Analysis 3.3.2 Concentration Ratio (CR3, CR5 and CR10) (2017-2019) 3.4 New Products and Potential Entrants 3.5 Mergers Acquisitions, Expansion

4 Online Program Management in Higher Education by Regions 4.1 Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size by Regions 4.2 Americas Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Growth 4.3 APAC Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Growth 4.4 Europe Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Growth 4.5 Middle East Africa Online Program Management in Higher Education Market Size Growth Continued

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by Hanna Ziady, CNN Business

Bank tellers are out and robotics engineers are in, according to a new report that says the coronavirus recession is accelerating technological changes that could displace 85 million jobs within the next five years.

"Automation, in tandem with the Covid-19 recession, is creating a 'double disruption' scenario for workers," said the report published Wednesday by the World Economic Forum, which warns that inequality is likely to increase unless displaced workers can be retrained to enter new professions.

More than two-fifths of large companies surveyed by the WEF plan to reduce their workforces due to the integration of technology.

"For the first time in recent years, job creation is starting to lag behind job destruction and this factor is poised to affect disadvantaged workers with particular ferocity," the WEF said in its report.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a sharp spike in unemployment around the world. Several major economies in Europe and elsewhere have extended support for wages in order to offset the alarming rise in joblessness. Unemployment in the United States, meanwhile, continues to march higher while lawmakers quarrel over new stimulus measures.

"As unemployment figures rise, it is of increasing urgency to expand social protection including support for retraining to displaced and at-risk workers as they navigate the paths... towards the 'jobs of tomorrow," the WEF report said.

The pandemic risks deepening existing inequalities because industries that have been hardest hit, including travel and tourism, hospitality and retail, tend to have younger, and lower-wage workers who are disproportionately female.

The World Bank has warned that the pandemic could increase income inequality and push up to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year.

The pandemic has accelerated technology adoption by businesses and consumers, turbocharging demand for cloud computing and e-commerce services, while squeezing companies that can't serve their customers online.

Workers unable to work from home, either because their jobs require face-to-face interaction or because they have limited internet access, have also been severely disadvantaged.

"Efforts to support those affected by the current crisis lag behind the speed of disruption," WEF founder Klaus Schwab and board member Saadia Zahidi said in the preface to the report. "We find ourselves at a defining moment: the decisions and choices we make today will determine the course of entire generations' lives and livelihoods," they added.

According to the WEF report, a shift in the division of labor between humans and machines could displace an estimated 85 million jobs by 2025, while giving rise to 97 million new roles.

Jobs set to be increasingly redundant include administrative assistants, bookkeepers and payroll clerks, while positions in growing demand include those in the green economy, roles at the forefront of data and artificial intelligence, as well as new jobs in engineering, cloud computing and product development.

An expected increase in jobs in marketing, sales and content production, as well as roles requiring an aptitude for working with people from different backgrounds "showcase the continuing importance of human interaction in the new economy," the report added.

Some workers whose jobs are vulnerable may be able to move into new careers, according to the report, which found that 94% of businesses surveyed expect employees to pick up new skills on the job, a sharp increase from 65% in 2018.

An analysis by LinkedIn's data science team conducted for the WEF showed that many professionals who have moved into "emerging roles" in the new economy over the past five years came from entirely different occupations, which in some cases did not share similar skills.

For example, half of those who transitioned into data science and artificial intelligence (AI) professions were from unrelated industries. That figure climbs to 67% in engineering roles, 72% in content roles and 75% in sales.

Transitions into data and AI allow for the largest variation in skills profiles, the LinkedIn study shows, finding that half of those who moved into these roles had skills with low similarity.

Critical thinking, analysis and problem solving remain among the top skills that the world's largest companies see as rising in importance over the next five years.

New skills the companies highlighted that speak to how the pandemic has disrupted daily life include stress tolerance, resilience and flexibility.

Companies are increasingly investing in retraining existing employees. The report projects that half of workers who remain in their roles will need to learn new skills to perform their jobs effectively in an increasingly automated world.

The WEF report cites a study by online education provider Coursera, which found that between April and June there was a five-fold increase in employer provision of online learning opportunities and a four-fold increase in individuals seeking out opportunities for learning online through their own initiative.

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WALTER WENDLER | Amarillo Globe-News

(Editors note: Fourth in a series of how universities can help build character.)

University innovation is often, and appropriately, viewed as the work of faculty and students fueling discovery through individual scholarship, research, and creative activity. Universities must innovate corporately, too. Resource challenges for education have increased while needs for social and human services, public safety, and other high priorities press heavily on taxpayers and legislative leaders. When George W. Bush was governor, an impassioned plea by university presidents was made for increased funding. He reportedly replied to the chorus of concern, Health care institutions, departments of public safety, and social services dont have marching bands or football programs. Go find the resources.

Indeed, universities utilize philanthropy to offset declining availability of state funds. However, innovation in the delivery and management of educational programs through experimentation could drive costs down and simultaneously sustain and increase quality. Too many procrastinate rather than innovate. Colleges hum a mantra of self-fulfilling doomsday prophecies choking off new ideas. Innovation and experimentation should abound in universities. They are idea places. Instead, too frequently a hidebound mentality governs action. The pandemic exacerbates the need for innovation. Online learning began walking in the 90s and reached a trot in the second decade of this century. But COVID-19 jockeyed online demand resulting in a full gallop, shifting delivery modes faster than the Internet.

Innovation is essential for survival. Survival is a commanding motivator.

Some institutions, Georgia Institute of Technology for example, brought their best academic offerings online at a lower cost than residential instruction. It was innovative. The New York Times recognized it: The combination of a prestigious department, traditional degree and drastically lower price was something new in American higher education. Yet many institutions and disciplines of study within those institutions fight online offerings as a pandemic-like disease that infects true learning. I hear this daily. I dont believe it. Likewise, drinking the Kool-Aid that asserts digital delivery of instruction will solve every problem is more Pollyanna than problem-solving.

Forbes draws clarity between wishful thinking, dreaming, and innovation. Through pragmatism, innovative dreamers transform wishful thinking into solved problems. Marina Kim and Angie Fuessel in the Stanford Social Innovation Review report that change making can be embedded in corporate culture and freeing human capital to address challenges. Innovation should be a core value for forward-looking educational enterprises.

WT tracks national averages, and innovation is needed to address changing demographics. New America reveals misconceptions regarding universities in a study of 1,600 Americans. The average age of students has increased. Yet, 63% of Americans surveyed believe the average college student is 20 years old. The reality is the average college student is 26.4 years old. Of those surveyed, 57% believe most people attend public two-year schools compared to four-year institutions. The reality is 40% attend public four-year institutions and 38% attend public two-year institutions. Innovative approaches are required to distinguish the value proposition for two- and four-year institutions and simultaneously create seamless transfer between the two. These are just two examples. Effective universities will innovate in response to students and their aspirations. An American Enterprise Institute interview with Ben Nelson, CEO of Minerva, confirms this perspective. Innovation is essential.

Forbes Brandon Busteed provides a number of innovative ideas sharply focused by the pandemic. Some are not new: Work readiness is essential, particularly as costs increase. WTs internship and experiential learning opportunities are growing markedly to meet demand. Admissions decisions should be provided within 48 hours. WT created a web application delivering an answer in less than a day, occasionally, in minutes. Online education is core to the strategy of any four-year residential institution that has ambitions to remain relevant, diversify revenue and grow. WT provides increasingly high-quality online instruction and has for 23 years. Condensed and less expensive bachelors degrees, the support of students as lifelong learners, shared services to increase efficiency and reduce costs and non-degree education are all worthwhile considerations.

Some of this thinking is fresh; some is common practice. However, this is cleartradition must be overcome in any institution that seeks to innovate for the benefit of those served.

Innovation is a core value of West Texas A&M University and, thankfully, those called West Texans.

Walter V. Wendler is President of West Texas A&M University. His weekly columns are available athttp://walterwendler.com/

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Whether it be from dining room tables turned work desks or the comfort of ones own bed, students in Anthropology 238 made sure to log into their twice-a-week Zoom session at 1:40 PM. It was another hour and 15 minutes spent trying to avoid the temptation other avenues of the internet bring, all whilst zeroing in on the voice emanating from one of the 20-something virtual boxes.

The professor, who left Queens, NY for Pennsylvania during the pandemic, was in the middle of his lecture until he no longer was. He couldnt be, not after a bear wandering into his backyard caught his attention.

The professor let out a genuine Oh f*ck, leading his students to tune out of the lecture and look at him with intrigue. The professor turned his camera and, sure enough, a bear could be made out through the low-resolution lens strolling across his back lawn.

Thats something thats only gonna happen on Zoom, one of the attendees claimed after class.

Queens College students are no strangers to online learning during the fall semester. They made the transition into Zoom meetings and Blackboard Collaborate Ultra sessions once COVID-19 reached the United States last spring.

Back in March, April and May, the coronavirus was viewed as no more than an unexpected challenge QC would do anything to put in the rearview mirror. The goal for most, if not all classes, became to successfully end with as little duress as possible.

Now, the effects of a global pandemic on QC have settled into an unsettling permanence. Technical difficulties cut into lecture time and bears interrupt the class. The college experience has become a mindless cycle of near-identical assignments to submit on a weekly basis, many of which include hoards of readings teachers assign in an attempt to close the comprehension gap online learning can create.

Asynchronous classes have been an invaluable workaround to the varying schedules of QC students, but those lectures also require time and energy students have become responsible to find on their own. Rather than having a set schedule anchoring their day-to-day actions, students must keep pace or fall behind while maintaining habits that ensure they never get buried too deep under their respective workloads.

The readings are already homework, an anonymous student said. But I have to watch powerpoints and do readings. I have to watch lecture videos and do the readings. Theres a lot more work.

Unfortunately, professors dont have a handbook to afford themselves guidance. Pages are being filled with newfound procedures by the day. Some have even actively taken it upon themselves to make the lives of their students easier with open-note tests and fewer requirements to earn a reasonable grade.

Im basically deciding everyone gets an A if they just do everything in good faith, Media Studies Professor Douglas Rushkoff said of his students. I gotta bend over backward because I dont know what peoples situation is.

Theres long been an inherent give and take to the traditional in-person college experience. Students burn themselves out trying to bump up their grade point average, but walk away with added life experience that lays a foundation for their future selves. Memories are created. Voices are shaped. Perspectives change.

Without the take, students are finding it much more difficult to invest in the give. Some students have yet to hand in any assignments or muster the sliver of enthusiasm needed to click on just one of their Zoom links. Poor grades and a lower GPA are no longer able motivators. Not when the pandemic has life tugging at them harder than ever before.

(College) is a community of humans gathered together in the pursuit of knowledge and intelligence and a society and a community of learning, Professor Rushkoff explained. You couldnt help but (have) your conversations and interactions informed by the stuff you were learning. The online thing makes it much more like college is this stuff that youre learning in order to get a degree in order to get a job. Thats not really what its about.

That might not be what college was about, but thats what its become. And just like every other issue causing stress in 2020, its on us to find ways to make it bearable until we no longer have to.

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Revenue from online education is creating new sales tax obligations for higher ed institutions, but the rules vary widely by state.

Many higher ed institutions have been battling budget woes in recent years due to decreased funding and dwindling enrollments, which has prompted some to diversify their revenue streams. Amid ongoing struggles, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a further negative impact on public and private institutions alike. As a result, many institutions are expanding into new digital channels to reach students based in other areas to lift enrollment numbers and increase revenues.

Still, expanding online isnt as clear cut as it may sound at first. Colleges are finding creative ways to provide virtual classes that span from continuing education to professional development, and some are even going beyond the traditional bounds of higher education. As colleges and universities expand their online footprint and wander into new non-traditional education services, its likely that they will encounter new sales tax obligations that they would otherwise not face while solely operating in-person courses.

In June 2018, the Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. made it possible for states to tax the transactions created by remote sellers regardless of the sellers physical presence in the state in the form of economic nexus laws. Today, economic nexus laws exist in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and parts of Alaska (where there are local sales taxes but no statewide sales tax). What many dont fully understand is that state and local governments tax many different types of services. So, not only do economic nexus laws apply to businesses selling goods into other states, but they could also apply to the sale of online education to students in other states.

Determining whether or not online education and training sales are subject to sales tax can be inherently complex. There are two main factors that can impact taxabilitythe format education is delivered and the type of program or school.

Format. The format in which a class is provided to students can affect taxability. A nuance as simple as the class or content being provided via a live-stream or pre-recorded video can change taxability. For example, the Tennessee Department of Revenue recently issued a ruling that explains that while live, instructor-led online courses arent subject to Tennessee sales and use tax, self-paced online classes that provide no live online instruction are taxable. In this scenario, when the class isnt taught live the state considers what the student is paying for is the use of the computer instead of the instruction itself.

In some cases, the move from live, in-person education to online learning changes the definition of a service (which are often tax-exempt) to a digital good. While many states tax the sale of digital goods, its unclear whether online education came to mind when the laws were created. Still, some states, like Wisconsin, have clarified the taxability of online education sales by stating that the sale of live digital online educational services is not taxable, but the sale of pre-recorded seminars and webinars is generally taxable.

Type of school or program. The taxability of online education can also hinge on what type of institution is selling it. For many states, education is exempt if taught by a nonprofit or government, but for-profit institutions dont always have the same type of general exemption. When it comes to the program type, the rules vary widely by state. Traditional degree-focused education is often exempt while education granting certificates is not always exempt. For example, in Texas, training and education services that are instructional in nature are not taxable, including online training courses and classes that provide accreditation, certification or continuing education credit.

Online higher education providers can run into new tax complexity even if they are not required to pay a single cent to tax authorities. Economic nexus laws can in many instances require an institution to register even though they may have few sales of online education that are actually taxed. One of the often-unspoken requirements of a sales tax is the requirement to provide and collect exemption certificates. Ultimately, the need to register and file exemption certificates depends on the states definition of economic nexus and whether it includes exempt sales as part of the economic nexus threshold.

We are just beginning to understand how the tax complexity that education providers are facing and will encounter as they expand online. One thing that is certain is that business practices will continue to change, and the law will struggle to keep up. The Wayfair decision upended decades of tax policy. As more goods and services are sold online, its likely that tax laws could adapt and expand to include historically exempt sales, including education.

As education providers navigate a new world that hinges on the flexibility and convenience driven by technology, building sales tax compliance into their operations will become critical. Sales tax law is complex and nuanced. When the law, which is often very old, is applied to changing products and changing business processes, it can be very difficult for organizations to understand and manage their sales tax obligations as they grow their business online. Getting compliance right is essential for higher education providers to successfully scale their enrollments online and stay ahead of the curve.

Scott Peterson was the first executive director of the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board, where he was devoted to making sales tax simpler and more uniform for the benefit of business. He is also vice president for U.S. tax policy at Alavara, a provider of tax compliance software.

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Jeffrey Toobin became the talk of the Internet yesterday, when the world learned that the high profile legal writer and TV analyst had been suspended by The New Yorker after he exposed himself during a video zoom call.

In a statement to Vice, which broke the story, Toobin said, I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. He continued, I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.

Vice later updated its original story to add that Toobin was masturbating on a Zoom video chat between members of theNew Yorker and WNYC radio last week. The chat was apparently an election simulation in which different prominent New Yorker writers played various parties in a disputed election. Toobin played the courts.

A spokesperson for CNN, where Toobin also works as an a legal analyst, said yesterday that, Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted.

For a writer at some other magazine, that might be the end of it. But when the writer at the center of an embarrassing incident like this just happens to work for the most distinguished magazine in the country, it gives the highbrow permission for lowbrow gags. Right-wing pundits, left-wing pundits, and even a prominent no-longer-imprisoned former football player who was held liable for his wifes killing, used the opportunity to goof on Toobin and his magazine. Heres a sampling:

1.Sasha Issenberg, journalist and author, via Twitter:

2.Kieran Healy, Professor of Sociology at Duke University, via Twitter:

3.George Conway, via Twitter:

4.Jess Dweck, TV writer, via Twitter:

5.David Klion, writer, via Twitter:

6.O.J. Simpson, whose murder case was the subject of Toobins 1996 book, The Run of His Life: The Peoplev.O.J. Simpson, in a video message posed to Twitter:

7.Paula Reid, CBS News White House Correspondent and lawyer, via Twitter:

8.Ann Coulter, via Twitter:

9. Grace Panetta, politics reporter at Business Insider, via Twitter:

10. Matt Taibbi, via Twitter:

11.Ashley Feinberg, via Twitter:

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With the Amy Coney Barrett hearings in full swing this week, my mailbox has been overflowing with questions from absolutely no readers! Here, I will deliver the answers that no one asked for.

Q: How can you say its fair to fill the seat of a constitutional giant like Ruth Bader Ginsburg with this far-right, anti-choice, conservative woman?

A: Youre right, RBG had patience, will and almost no black law clerks. One (1) black law clerk out of 160, to be precise. To borrow from my journalist colleagues, Are you a white supremacist?

Q: So you think its OK to just ignore her dying wish?

A: Touche! But youve forgotten that the Dying Wish clause of the Constitution is trumped by the Retire When a Democrat Is President clause. RBG was fully entitled to have a Democrat choose her replacement by retiring in 2014 when Obama was president and she was 81 years old, had already survived two bouts of cancer, two falls that broke her ribs and a heart operation. She chose not to.

Q: Youre seriously going to claim that ACB is the most qualified Supreme Court nominee?

A: Of course! Much like being a police chief in modern America, apparently the No. 1 qualification for this job is: being a woman. I dont know when my party signed onto identity politics, but Im not happy about it either. At least we didnt end up with Americas leading Karen, Kamala Harris.

Q: So you think women shouldnt run for president or sit on the Supreme Court?

A: Of course they should. But the way we should find them is not to decide Hey, lets get a woman for this job! Anybody know one? Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir didnt become the leaders of their nations because someone said, Lets find a woman!

Ironically, the Democrats best candidate for president this year actually was a woman, but unfortunately, Sen. Amy Klobuchar was not a woman of color. So now the Democrats are saddled with the smirking insufferableness of Kamala as their backup candidate to a guy with senile dementia.

Q: What are you talking about, Ann? Kamala is the best! Shes hip, shes cool, shes brilliant.

A: Yes, and she called Joe Biden a racist.

Q: Shes explained that! On Stephen Colberts show, she laughed it off, saying: It was a debate!

A: Glad to get this on the record. So the official position of the Democratic Party is that its fine to falsely accuse a person of racism as long as its done to score political points. At least you guys dont take racism accusations lightly.

Q: Im a conservative, and I thought ACB was terrific at the hearings!

A: If there were an Olympic sport called Keeping a Straight Face While Being Lectured by Morons, ACB would take the gold. Though I might recommend that after repeatedly refusing to answer absurd hypotheticals by claiming, I would need to hear arguments from the litigants and read briefs and consult with my law clerks and talk to my colleagues and go through the opinion-writing process, maybe Barrett should not have prejudged a pending case by saying she cried when she saw the George Floyd video and citing it as an example of hatred and racism.

Instead of the George Washington and the Cherry Tree myth, I guess our new patriotic fable is the George Floyd Was Killed by a Racist Cop myth.

Q: My grandpa is in a relationship with a California hipster, and no one in the family knows what to do about it.

A: This isnt really that kind of advice column, but at least were back to Kamala Harris.

Q: You Republicans are just terrified by a strong woman of color. Mike Pence constantly interrupted her at the vice presidential debate and Harris Republican colleagues in the Senate interrupt her all the time. Theres been gobs of press about it, including an article in The New York Times, The Universal Phenomenon of Men Interrupting Women.

A: My imaginary interlocutors are really obnoxious today.

1) According to ABC News Rick Klein, Harris had slightly more speaking time than Pence at the debate.

2) But I loved how the Biden-Harris campaign had Im still speaking! T-shirts available for sale immediately following the debate. That didnt look at all pre-planned.

3) As for senators interrupting Harris, try looking at the videos that are longer than one minute. Invariably, the reason shes being interrupted is that she is rudely badgering a witness and not allowing him to answer. Yes or no! Yes or no! Please allow me to paint you into a corner by accepting all the ridiculous constraints of my question without further comment or explanation.

See the slightly longer videos here: realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/13/sen_harris_told_to_stop_interrupting_and_let_sessions_speak_at_hearing.html and here: youtube.com/watch?v=rshx1U9JgZM

Q: But if ACB is confirmed, women will be forced into back-alley abortions!

A: Let me assure you that even if Roe v. Wade is ever overturned, in California, New York and other liberal states, you will still enjoy a right to abortion right up to birth (at least), and if the baby somehow still survives, youll be allowed to bash in his head in with an oxygen tank.

I dont know what Democrats are so worried about, anyway. According to them, Americans LOVE Roe! Amy Klobuchar said at one of the Democratic debates this year, The people are with us. Over 70% of the people support Roe v. Wade.

Oddly, when I tried to locate this statistic on Google, I found endless polls claiming 70% of Americans support every left-wing policy -- the entire Democratic agenda: legalizing pot; Medicare for all; amnesty for illegals, Black Lives Matter and on and on. All have 70% support!

So Ive got good news for liberals: If these polls are accurate, you dont need left-wing judicial activists concocting imaginary constitutional rights to get your way. Just pass laws, like in a democracy. On the other hand, the hysteria over RBGs death and ACBs nomination tells me that liberals dont believe their own polls.

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Half a decade ago, the ascendance of the alt-right was about as plausible as the election of Donald Trump, and we all know how that worked out. Like the 2016 election, director Daniel Lambrosos provocative alt-right portrait White Noise isnt all that surprising, but that doesnt lessen the terror within. In capturing the racist trifecta of alt-right pundits Mike Cernovich, Laura Southern, and Richard Spencer, the documentary shows how they became emboldened by celebrity stature, and comes so close to letting them run the show it risks trumpeting their cause. Fortunately, it doesnt take the most discerning bullshit detector to realize that White Noise has been engineered to expose a fundamental danger to whatever moral fabric America has left. Lambroso has made the scariest documentary of the year without telling us anything new.

However, for the lucky few who somehow avoided any of this movies subjects and their small armies of white nationalist devotees, White Noise provides a handy primer (and just enough to avoid the need to dig further). Working closely with his subjects over the course of several years, Lambroso seems to have gained their trust, and his camera manages to track them across boisterous media appearances as they flaunt their provocative stupidity to every possible camera, including many adoring crowds.

Yet it also finds them at an inflection point empowered by Trumps election, but uncertain how to clarify the next steps. Spencer, the neo-Nazi who went viral for his infamous Heil Trump speech in 2016, annoys the hell out of Cernovich, the nebbishy anti-feminist blogger who prefers to deem his loathsome views as a defense against white genocide. Splitting the difference between the two, 25-year-old Canadian YouTube star Lauren Southern spouts maniacal xenophobic arguments against immigration and womens rights with a camera-ready smirk that hangs over her most radical pronouncements like an awkward Trojan horse. Zipping between these as it maps out their deranged community, the movie implies varying degrees of danger on display: Spencers Hitleresque ambition makes for quite the horror show, but Cernovichs unassuming dopiness and Southerns next-gen Ann Coulter charm are just as alarming for the way they attempt to soften their putrid views with personality. At its worst, White Noise goes there with them.

Like Errol Morris unnerving American Dharma, the filmmakers feature-length one-on-one with alt-right folk hero Steve Bannon, White Noise enters a moral gray zone by virtue of its very existence. Yes, theres no ambiguity about the source of outrage when a Colombia University audience revolts against Cernovich, or journalists assail Spencer for his role in inciting the Charlottesville riots that resulted in one womans death. Yet as the movie follows the traditional cinema verite beats by watching its characters go to work, it often doesnt go far enough in clarifying its moral compass. Viewers can sort most of it out for themselves, but the movies give-em-enough-rope philosophy means that even as White Noise exposes the culture of internet-based disinformation that created these monsters, it actually becomes a part of the same problematic spotlight that thrust them onto the national stage.

Still, theres a fascinating gamble involved in the way the movie dares viewers to stomach its most upsetting moments, most of which come from Southern, who seems to navigate the backlash with aplomb at every turn. That includes her delight over the positive reaction to her disingenuous immigration documentary Borderless to the moronic declarations she manages to toss out to appreciative crowds. (Go to Africa and you will see rape culture being one of many.) Spencer, whose style sense is best described as fascist boy band, looks increasingly pathetic as his crowds dwindle post-Charlottesville, while Cernovich is reduced to selling skin-care products after the media gets over his rebel image. Southern, by contrast, almost comes across as a source of sympathy. One shocking moment finds Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes propositioning her after an interview, and the sense of individuality she expresses in that moment creates one of the more troubling conflicts the movie offers up. Southern doesnt deserve to be anyones hero, but White Noise dares to make her human.

Documentarians have been holding their noses in these putrid depths of bigotry for decades. Michael Moore and Kevin Raffertys Blood in the Face made clear the ambitions of neo-Nazis on American soil almost 30 years ago, while Morris Bannon doc came out shortly before another more explicit condemnation of the man in Alison Klaymans The Brink. Yet White Noise comes across as the most harrowing of the bunch, less for the evil it exposes than the extent it allows them to control the narrative.

If theres any source of comfort that comes from spending time with these loonies aside from, hey, you really ought to vote in this election it comes from the implication that they might just cancel each other out. As Cernovich derides Spencers Nazism for holding us back, while Spencer recalls Cernovichs previous career as a really gross sex-blogger, its enough to make the case that they could simply scream each other into oblivion. (Spencer, whos living with his mother and facing pending criminal charges, may face more precise justice than that.) The jurys still out on Southern, now a young mother and wife (to a non-white person, though she wont get into that for the camera), but lets hope this particular open-ended character doesnt merit a sequel.

In fact, lets hope society doesnt. White Noise culminates by letting its subjects share their delusions of grandeur, but cant sort out if theyre pathetic or practical in these uncertain times. The documentary stops short of investigating how the world got this way, or what it will take to set things right. It might have helped, in a movie so committed to stating its main problem, to offer some semblance of solution. (Hello, education!) Nevertheless, White Noise has a compelling message at its core, by daring viewers to see the worst of our society, and cautioning against the tendency to simply tuning it out.

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White Noise Review: Alt-Right Showcase Is the Scariest Documentary of the Year - IndieWire

Jen Lancasters new memoir is about anxiety, but the top review on Amazon has nothing to do with the book.

Instead, a reviewer from Seattle, Washington, gives Lancasters Welcome to the United States of Anxiety one star the lowest ranking because of what she perceives to be the authors political views. Although the reviewer admits she hasnt read the book, more than 1,422 Amazon browsers said they found the review helpful.

Call it the United States of Animosity, where less than three weeks before a contentious election, politics are creeping into every aspect of life, even those that have nothing to do with politics. The acrimony has seeped into decorations that children will walk past on Halloween, influences decisions about what people read and where they shop, and has even turned up in an online forum devoted to knitting.

It feels like our choices of entertainment, our choices of where we shop, where we eat, what we read, has become deeply infused with political beliefs, said John Sarrouf, co-executive director of the community building nonprofit Essential Partners, based in Boston. Ive heard people say, I dont want to walk down that street because theres a big Trump sign. They dont even want to look at it.

For Lancaster, a bestselling author of 15 other books, it was jarring to see a spiteful review that she says does not even reflect her current personal views. The reviewer said that Lancaster liked conservative author Ann Coulter, based on something Lancaster published in 2006. But in 2006, I also liked chunky highlights and platform sandals, she said, adding that her political views have similarly evolved since then.

Although the all-encompassing nature of politics feels new, historians say its actually a return to an earlier time when political campaigns were the nations major form of entertainment. And some social scientists say an obsession with politics is better than its antithesis, apathy.

But others are hoping the emphasis on political divisions will end after the votes are counted next month.

It ought to be possible to say, for example, I enjoyed playing golf today, without Democrats and Republicans immediately thinking, That awful president plays golf, too, Charles Lipson, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago wrote for Real Clear Politics.

Lancaster, 52, best known for her humorous titles such as Bitter is the Next Black and Such a Pretty Fat, said that until recently, she has held fairly conservative political views throughout her career, and openly so, until around 2007.

Politics are really important to me; I was a political science major at Purdue, she said, adding that she spoke in support of the late GOP Sen. John McCain when he ran for president in 2008 at a time when other authors came out against him.

But then my entire management team said, Youre not going to have a career if you continue to say anything about being conservative. So Ive kept my mouth shut.

In her new book, she says she no longer identifies with a political party. If I identify with anything, its being an American, which is why I despise how badly weve splintered as a country. The divisions between us arent new, but the ways we deal with them are. Weve lost the social norm of civility, Lancaster wrote.

Adrienne Martini, a member of the Otsego County Board of Representatives in Oneonta, New York, wrote a book about her experience running for office, Somebodys Gotta Do It. But before she was a politician, she was a knitter, and like others, turned the hobby political by knitting pink hats that women wore in a march on Washington in 2017.

They are very easy to knit and made me feel like I was doing something after the 2016 election. The big political thing to knit right now is the dissent collar (a nod to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wore lace collars) but it doesnt move me in quite the same way, Martini said.

Knitters have also made things in support of President Donald Trump, such as a pattern for a hat that said Build the Wall, designed by an anonymous woman who calls herself the Deplorable Knitter. On her website, she said she and her husband support our President, our Troops, and our God. If any of those things offend you, this is probably not the place for you.

Her support of the president was deemed offensive by the online knitting community Ravelry, which banned her from the platform, as well as anyone promoting Trump and his policies. The resulting furor caused MIT Technology Review to write about increased politicization of the online knitting world.

But Martini said she isnt surprised or even particularly troubled by the division among knitters.

My feeling is that politics is the water that we all swim in every moment of every day. Were just more aware of how wet that water is right now and how many of us are drowning rather than swimming. Knitting is just one more way that people make their preferences known, she said

Ellen Fitzpatrick, a history professor at the University of New Hampshire who specializes in presidential campaigns, said the current high level of engagement in politics is due in part to the pandemic, but magnified exponentially by widespread use of social media.

Everyone is an authority these days, she said. Theres tremendous explosion of opportunity for people to participate in these ways; whether theyre constructive or not is another question.

But what seems a new level of engagement is actually a return to an earlier period in history, she said.

In the 19th century, fewer Americans were able to vote; women and many Blacks were not eligible, for example. But there was a tremendously high level of enthusiasm and engagement on the part of those who could vote. It was a form of entertainment; it was a way of socializing with each other. There would be these huge torchlight parades and outdoor lectures. Politics was entertainment; it was sport. It filled a lot of needs in the culture, Fitzpatrick said.

During that period, however, people identified more with political parties than with individuals, and in the early 20th century, reforms were instituted (to include secret ballots and the primary process) that made the parties less powerful, and the turnout rate, which once was as high as 80%, began to fall, and interest in elections declined and never recovered to 19th century levels.

Paradoxically, the number of eligible voters expands over the course of the 20th century, but voter enthusiasm seemed to decline, Fitzpatrick said. Whats going on today, there seems to be a high level of engagement, but whether that translates to voting or not remains to be seen.

There are new developments today, though, she noted, including exuberance for the individual candidates rather than the political parties and their platforms.

And politics is infecting everything now. This deep division is a worrisome development because it seems to be so full of anger. The anonymity of some of these platforms allows people to say things they would not say in person to someone else. I think theres a hate-filled rhetoric and divisiveness that is a very lamentable thing were seeing in recent years.

Lipson, at the University of Chicago, said that the political divisions in America are deep and the greatest since the Great Depression and perhaps since 1860. Equally disturbing is that, while in the past, people of differing political parties still found areas on which they can agree, now they rarely do.

The parties are more ideological than they have been since the 1930s, he said. Instead of having cross-cutting cleavages socially, we have reinforcing cleavages. Were slicing the pie down the same middle slice all the time. And were doing so without strong trust in social and governmental institutions, Lipson said.

If you asked in the early 1960s, do you think government generally tries to do the right thing?, 70% would say yes; now the number is like 20%, he said. We have deep social cleavages, parties that are trying to pull us apart, activists within those parties, all dealing with each other in a very low-trust environment. This is a recipe for real trouble.

Lancaster, the Chicago author, said the problem is that people are telling other people what they should think and why they should think it. If you want to make a persuasive argument, the best thing you can do is talk about your personal experience with whatever the subject is, she said.

But, she said, This is such an ugly political season that I dont think not talking about politics is the right call either. I think what we need to do is try to foster some mutual understanding or were going to have a civil war.

Sarrouf, co-author of Essential Partners Guide to Conversations Across the Red-Blue Divide, echoed Lancasters remarks, saying that people can learn a constructive cycle of conversation that they can employ anytime theyre in conversation that is becoming acrimonious.

Research has shown that peoples minds are rarely changed by yard signs, but they can be changed in a thoughtful conversation in which both sides listen deeply to the other and ask sincere questions. Be that positive deviation from the escalating norm, Sarrouf said.

Also, he advises people to quickly remove the physical manifestations of division immediately after the election. If its important to put up a sign in your yard, its important to take it down when its over, Sarrouf said.

I think its important to remember that we are not just one thing. The person down the street is not just a Democrat who voted for Biden; theyre the person who brought a bouquet of flowers when my mom passed away, he said. Or, the person for Trump is also the person who picks up trash at the kids playground so it can be a clean place for the children to play. We are not just our political identities.

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